Picnics & Shelters

There's nothing quite like a picnic in the park.

Cleveland Metroparks offers more than 40 reservable picnic areas across our 18 reservations, eight golf courses and world-class Zoo. Hold a family reunion, birthday party or get together in any of our picnic areas including enclosed rooms, canopies and open shelters.

Packages and Services

Guidelines

Cleveland Metroparks offers many picnic
areas with shelters and/or canopies, picnic
tables and grills, restrooms and various
amenities and are located throughout
Cleveland Metroparks. The majority of these
picnic areas are free and available for all to
use on a non-exclusive, shared-use basis.

Picnic area
reservation requests will be accepted up to one year prior to the
intended date of use. Individuals must be 21 years of age or older to
reserve a group picnic facility. For more information and reservations,
call Special Events & Experiences, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday.

Individuals
must be 21 years of age or older to reserve a facility. Most Reserved
Group Picnic Facilities are reserved for the day and available for use
from 10 a.m. up to 10 p.m. Ledge Lake shelters are closed at 9 p.m.
during the swim season. Lake and Shelterhouse are available at 8 a.m.

Starting in 2014, two new picnic shelters will be reservable –

Creekside Reserved Shelter in Big Creek Reservation

Cottonwood Reserved Shelter in Rocky River Reservation

Reservations for these will be accepted beginning Monday,
January 6, 2014. Requests will be accepted by phone only (216-635-3304)
starting at 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. From that date forward, requests
will continue to be accepted up to one year prior to the intended date
of use. Individuals must be 21 years of age or older to reserve a group
facility.

Also a few shelters are changing from weekend only to being reservable seven days a week –